Articles
This is a collection of articles from other blogs that I have read and would recommend to you.
General
- Creativity: How to Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius
- Keep Your Identity Small
- 7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read
- The Ego Is Not the Enemy
- How To Be Successful
- Productivity
- The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness
- You probably know to ask yourself, “What do I want?” Here’s a way better question
- The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds
- Write Like You Talk
- What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?
- Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
- Why you should have a side project
- Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
- Helpful advice for anyone who wants to be more productive
- 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose
- Mental models
- Fire And Motion
- The Feedback Fallacy
- The Perils and Promises of Praise
- Work on your best idea
Programming
- Lessons Learned in Software Development
- How to think like a programmer — lessons in problem-solving
- YOU GOT THIS.
- The Big Redesign In The Sky
- Code is our enemy
- The Best Code is No Code At All
- Connecting the dots: where hard work and dreams can lead you
- We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made
- Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum
- Optimize Your Programming Decisions for the 95%, Not the 5%
- Notes to Myself on Software Engineering
- Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
- Getting away with rewriting code from scratch
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- The Three Stages of a Developer
- Becoming a 10x Developer
- Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development)
- 2000 Lines Of Code
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- Write Dumb Code
- 7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
- Why You Won’t Fix It Later
- LeBlanc’s Law (a.k.a Later Equals Never)
- There is No CODE that is more flexible than NO Code!
- The Hidden Cost of Delaying Bug Fixes
- Let the Experts Make the Decisions
- Individual Productivity Variation in Software Development
- BeckDesignRules
- A personal story about 10× development
- Hello, production
- Software Is Hard
- Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps)
- The #1 bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- who are you trying to impress with your deadlines?
- The Zen of Go
- A half-hour to learn Rust
- HOW I BECAME A BETTER PROGRAMMER
- The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
- The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
Startups General
- How to Get Startup Ideas
- Schlep Blindness
- What does product-market fit feel like?
- Not all products make good businesses
- How to validate startup concepts with Webflow
- Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- How I Went Looking for Inspiration, Found It & Launched Successfully
- Bootstrapping a Business: 5 Years In
- What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO?
- Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App
- YC’s Essential Startup Advice
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- Build a Product vs. Focus on Growth
- How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing
- The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users
- Growth Hacking: Strategies & Tactics Learned Studying 77 Hyper-Growth Companies
- Startup Playbook
- Validate or Die: Using Validation to Build the Right Product
- 42 Pricing Tricks Based on Psychology & Neuroscience
- 5 Psychological Tips That Will Improve Your Product Pricing
- 8 Psychological Triggers to Optimize Your Pricing Page
- The Beginner’s Guide to Customer Feedback
- How I got 2.3 million app downloads (without spending a cent on marketing)
- Conversion Rate Optimization: The Definitive Guide
- Debugging Your Startup: What to Do When Things Aren’t Working
- How to choose a target market for your SaaS
- The Myth Of The Niche Market
- 1,000 True Fans
- Choose Your Audience Wisely
- What skills do founders find most crucial for running their businesses?
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21587194
- 57 startup lessons
- Startup Advice
- Startup advice, briefly
- How to pick startup ideas
- How to build great products
- Why startups fail
- Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas
- “Build something people want” is not enough
- The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
Startup Success Stories
- Adam Wathan’s $100K Product Launch
- How I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent
- Carrd: The Making Of
- Bootstrapping my “company of one” without a line of code
- From side-project to millions of emails - getrevue.co
- Bootstrapping to Ramen Profitability in a Year – Landen.co
- How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability – Canny.io
- Interview: The Substack Story, So Far
- How We Bootstrapped Our Mailing List to Ramen Profitability ($2,000/month) – https://www.dailycodingproblem.com/
- How My Show Hacker News Project Got Acquired After 6 Months
- My First Year Growing A Product - ClosetAsistant
- How I Shipped My First SaaS Side Project While Working Full Time
- How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
Startup Failure Stories
- RethinkDB: why we failed
- 7 Lessons From 100+ Failed Startups
- I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
Starup Idea Validation
- How to successfully validate your idea with a Landing Page MVP
- Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
- Show HN: Buffer – My November Sprint App
- What is your coming soon page for?
- If You’re Going to Test Your Business Idea Make Sure You Do It Right.
- Idea Validation vs Minimum Viable Product
- Minimum Viable Product: a guide
- Startup Idea Validation: 5 Successful Examples
- I’m Joel Gascoigne, and This Is the Story Behind Buffer
- Product Hunt Began as an Email List
- From SaaS idea validation in 1 day to 150+ Beta signups
- The Hotjar story (part 1) – from idea to 60,000 beta signups in 6 months
- The Hotjar story (part 2) – from beta to €1 million ARR in 6 months
- The Hotjar story (part 3) - growing our team & product while going from €1 to €3 million ARR
ProductHunt Launch
- Posting to Product Hunt
- How to Launch on Product Hunt
- How I got 2,000 new subscribers from Product Hunt
Core Technologies Behind The Startup
Business
- Your Company Culture is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote
- How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp
- Farkı Yaratan Strateji Değil, Uygulamadır
- 5 Keys to Inspiring Leadership, No Matter Your Style